Summary:
ZIP code 67859 has two schools serving 462 students: Kismet Elementary for PK–2 and Southwestern Heights Junior/Senior High for grades 6–12. The clearest academic concern in the available results is that Southwestern Heights’ all-grades proficiency rates trail Kansas in all three subjects: about 30% in ELA, 25% in math, and 28% in science, compared with 46%, 41%, and 38% statewide. The gaps are about 16 points in both ELA and math and 10 points in science.
Eighth grade at Southwestern Heights is the strongest academic bright spot: its ELA, math, and science results are each above the state rates, at about 43%, 43%, and 40%. Results are much weaker in some other grades: sixth-grade math is 18% versus 41% statewide, seventh-grade ELA is 22% versus 44%, and eleventh-grade science is 12% versus 30%. Kismet is smaller, with 152 students compared with 310 at Southwestern Heights, and has a higher free/reduced-lunch rate: about 80% versus 74%. Their student-teacher ratios are similar, at 11.2 and 10.9, respectively. These are differences in school context, not explanations for academic results.
Southwestern Heights’ results improved overall from 2024–25 to 2025–26, but not equally across subjects: math rose by about 6 points and science by 2, while ELA increased by 1 and fell slightly further behind the state. SchoolDigger ranks the school 305th of 340 schools, in the 10th percentile with 1 star; its earlier rankings were 297th of 318 schools (7th percentile) and 276th of 332 (17th percentile), so the sequence is not a steady rise or decline. Chronic absenteeism is lower at Southwestern Heights than at Kismet—13% versus 17%—and both rates are below the statewide 18%. Graduation at Southwestern Heights was 85% versus 90% statewide, while its dropout rate was lower than the state’s, at 1% versus 1% after rounding. Kismet has no supplied test results, so the schools cannot be compared on test scores at the same grades.
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